To tube or not to tube: Do infants and children need post-laparotomy gastric decompression?

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 411-413

  Sandler, A D ^a   Evans, D ^b   Ein, S H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nasogastric decompression; Pediatrics; Post laparotomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION; FECES; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH INTUBATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031748865     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003830050351     Document Type: Article

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